{"id":32792,"date":"2016-12-19T06:47:38","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T14:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/new-construction-role-found-for-cell-demolition-tool"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:57:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:57:13","slug":"new-construction-role-found-for-cell-demolition-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/new-construction-role-found-for-cell-demolition-tool","title":{"rendered":"New construction role found for cell demolition tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-construction-role-found-for-cell-demolition-tool.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lysosomes originally thought to be the dust bins of the body have recently been found to have some constructive roles too.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A new role has been discovered for a well-known piece of cellular machinery, which could revolutionise the way we understand how tissue is constructed and remodelled within the body.<\/p>\n<p>Lysosomes are small, enzyme-filled sacks found within cells, which break down old cell components and unwanted molecules.<\/p>\n<p>Their potent mixture of destructive enzymes also makes them important in protecting cells against pathogens such as viruses by degrading cell intruders.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2016-12-role-cell-demolition-tool.html\">http:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2016&#45;12-role-cell-demolition-tool.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lysosomes originally thought to be the dust bins of the body have recently been found to have some constructive roles too. A new role has been discovered for a well-known piece of cellular machinery, which could revolutionise the way we understand how tissue is constructed and remodelled within the body. Lysosomes are small, enzyme-filled sacks [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32792"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65553,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32792\/revisions\/65553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}